Milwaukee area restaurant inspections:The Journal Sentinel’s restaurant inspections database shows food safety violations for restaurants in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Washington and Ozaukee counties, with some records going back to January 2012.

Milwaukee's health inspectors have been busy: Nine city restaurants so far this year were ordered to close or partially suspend operations until they addressed violations ranging from pests to smelly sewage in the kitchen.

Nearly all of those restaurants have since reopened, and ordering a closure is still rare when inspectors peek behind the curtains of the hundreds of restaurants and taverns in the city. But those inspections still turned up at least one critical food safety violation at almost 400 of the 900 or so establishments inspected this year, a Journal Sentinel review found. | July 17, 2013»Read Full Article(26)